A common source of frustration is that XPath itself doesn't provide a means of binding a namespace prefix with a namespace. It relies upon mechanisms provided

A common source of frustration is that XPath itself doesn't provide a means of binding a namespace prefix with a namespace. It relies upon mechanisms provided by the hosting language or library. After helping scores of devs with such problems on Stack Overflow, I took time to write a canonical answer addressing this issue: How does XPath deal with XML namespaces? https://stackoverflow.com/a/40796315/290085 https://stackoverflow.com/a/40796315/290085